Scott Carrier Explained
Scott Carrier is an American author, Peabody award-winning radio producer, and educator. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His second book, Prisoner of Zion, was published in April 2013.[1] He is a former assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University.[2]
Written work
Radio work
Carrier's pieces have been featured on radio programs, including This American Life since 1996,[5] [6] The Savvy Traveler, Marketplace, Day to Day, All Things Considered, and NPR's Hearing Voices.[7] In 2015, Carrier began producing a podcast entitled "Home of the Brave".[8] The podcast combines original stories with work that previously aired on NPR and other radio shows.
Contributions to This American Life
- Episode 12, segment The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals, 1996 (rebroadcast in episode 49)
- Episode 21, segment Religious Faction, 1996
- Episode 35, Fall Clearance Stories, haiku stories, 1996
- Episode 37, segment The Test, 1996 (rebroadcast in episode 181)
- Episode 40, segment Swimming Lesson, 1996
- Episode 42, segment Finding Amnesia, 1996
- Episode 45, segment Whoring in Commercial Radio News, 1996 (rebroadcast as The Friendly Man in episode 181)
- Episode 48, segment Kids, 1997
- Episode 49, segment The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals, 1997 (rebroadcast)
- Episode 53, segment Parent and Child, 1997
- Episode 64, segment On the Green River, 1997
- Episode 77, segment Kings, 1997
- Episode 80, segment Running After Antelope, 1997
- Episode 96, segment Book of Job, 1998
- Episode 113, segment Pot of Gold, 1998
- Episode 141, segment More Powerful Than a Locomotive, 1999
- Episode 146, segment Church of Latter Day Snakes, 1999
- Episode 181, The Friendly Man, with segments The Test (rebroadcast), The Friendly Man (rebroadcast), Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?, and The Day Mom and Dad Fell in Love, 2001. Entire show rebroadcast April 24, 2009.
- Episode 191, segment Just Three Thousand More Miles to the Beach, 2001
- Episode 195, segment Are You Ready?, 2001
- Episode 241, segment No of Course I Know You, 2003
- Episode 243, segment The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends, 2003
- Episode 286, segment Invisible Girl, 2005
- Episode 333, segment Am not. Are too. Am not. Are too., 2007
- Episode 551, segment The Test., 2015
Awards
In 2006 Carrier won a Peabody Award for a story titled "Crossing Borders" which was aired on Hearing Voices on NPR.[9]
In 2009 Carrier won a Fellow Award from United States Artists.[10]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: 978-1619021211. Prisoner of Zion: Muslims, Mormons, and Other Misadventures. Carrier. Scott. 2013. Catapult .
- Web site: Faculty Senate Minutes. uvu.edu. 17 July 2023.
- Web site: Over there: Afghanistan, after the fall. Scott . Carrier . Harper's Magazine . Harpers.org . April 2002 . 2011-03-17.
- Web site: Rock the Junta . Mother Jones . Scott . Carrier . July 2006 . 2011-03-17.
- Web site: 12:Animals – Originally aired 01.31.1996. This American Life. January 31, 1996. 2011-03-17.
- Web site: 181: The Friendly Man – Originally aired 04.06.2001 . A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling stories sound like nothing else on the radio. . This American Life . April 6, 2001 . 2011-03-17.
- Web site: Carrier, Scott/Archives . Hearing Voices . hearingvoices.com.
- Web site: Home of the Brave.
- Web site: Crossing Borders – 2006 . 2007 . The Peabody Awards, University of Georgia . 2011-03-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110217010431/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1452 . February 17, 2011 . mdy-all .
- Web site: Scott Carrier – Profile . United States Artists official website . 2011-03-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110213101343/http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/user/ScottCarrier . February 13, 2011 . mdy-all .
